Michael Marx, a farmer, and his wife Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 12 May 1766 aboard the galliot Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Daniel Geier.
Michael Marx, a farmer, and his wife Maria settled in the Volga German colony of Kaneau on 7 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 48.
The 1767 census records that Michael Marx came from the German village of Robesburg in the Lobach region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Marx family among the Volga German colonies.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 254.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #135.
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